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The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.
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The Pain of Earthly Separation
Job expresses a common human sorrow: after death, he will no longer be seen by his friends and family in this life. Commentators like John Gill clarify this isn't about annihilation. While Job will be gone from the 'land of the living,' his soul will continue to exist in God's presence. It's a lament about earthly separation, not a denial of the afterlife.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more—I shall be cut off from all my friends—one of the things which most distresse…
19th Century
Anglican
Shall see me no more. —That is, your own eyes shall look for me, but I shall be no more. So Septuagint and Vulgate.
Baptist
As if God only looked at him, and the very look withered him; or as if there was only time for God just to look at him, and then he disappeared as …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The eye of him that has seen me shall see me no [more] Or "the eye of sight" F5 ; the seeing eye, the mos…
Plain truths concerning the shortness and vanity of human life, and the certainty of death, do us good when we think and speak of them, applying th…
13th Century
Catholic
The blessed Job has previously demonstrated that the comfort Eliphaz offered, which promised happiness in this earthly life, was unsuitable. He fir…
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